From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-07-23T01:49:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 mswin32 Installation and a Problem

On Friday 22 July 2005 18:10, Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner wrote:
> After installing the package for Ruby 1.9 (extracting
> ruby-1.9.0-20050722-i386-mswin32.zip and adding bin-directory to PATH) I
> started it and got the following error Message (Example):
>
> H:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\interwolf\Desktop>ruby -e'puts "Hello"'
> ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)
>
> H:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\interwolf\Desktop>ruby --version
> ruby 1.9.0 (2005-07-22) [i386-mswin32]
>
> What went wrong?

The RUBYOPT environment variable is set from another Ruby
installation. Unset it first and then try again to run ruby.
Something like:
  % set RUBYOPT=
  % ruby -e "puts 'Hello'"

I'm not a Windows Guru, but I think that you have to modify
the registry to unset RUBYOPT permanent.

HTH,
  Stefan